You can try installing http://wordpress.org/plugins/filebrowser/ plugin and browse to the easy-columns plugin folder and delete it. The file browser will be available at Tools -> FileBrowser. But be careful when using this plugin as it allows you to delete any file/folder.
Thank you but the file browser plugin hasn’t been updated since 2010 so this is not the way I want to handle this. I need the author to step up and provide clear instructions for how to remove this plugin. Not being able to delete a plugin is unacceptable.
Let me understand:
You can’t delete the plugin in FTP ?
Or you don’t know how to do it ?
Do you have the passwords for FTP ?
I appreciate you trying to help. I will try to clarify.
I do not want to install another plugging in order to delete this particular plugin, so I am not using the suggested work-around the prior member suggested (esp. since that plugin hasn’t been updated since 2010 and will likely cause my other problems).
When I simply try the standard approach to deleting this plugin (navigating in the WordPress admin menu to Plugins > Installed Plugins and then finding Easy Columns in the list and clicking on “Delete”), I receive a message confirming that I wish to delete all the files and data for this plugin. When I click on “Yes,” I receive a completely blank screen and the plugin does not delete even after repeated attempts.
To my knowledge, this is the only approach I should need to delete a plugin and I should not have to use an FTP approach. I’ve never had to do that with any other plugin I changed my mind on. I would have no idea where to hunt for the FTP and I would not know of any passwords because I have never had to use that for this, unfortunately (or fortunately).
